Wyoming Goes Postal

And North Dakota nearly loses its direction.

By

Kimberley A. Strassel

Updated March 21, 2002 11:59 p.m. ET

"Go West, young man," Horace Greeley famously wrote. These days, you might wonder where he meant.

States revel in their images, some of which are come by more easily than others. Florida has its palm trees. New York has the Statue of Liberty. Pennsylvania has the Liberty Bell. Recently, however, there's been some grumpy dispute over who lays claim to one of the more famous images of all, that of the rugged, spirited...